US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 3 for "Utility optimized differential privacy system" (Canadian, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,478, issued on June 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Utility optimized differential privacy system" was invented by Mengyuan Zhang (Hong Kong SAR, China), Yosr Jarraya (Montreal), Makan Pourzandi (Montreal), Meisam Mohammady (Montreal), Shangyu Xie (Chicago), Yuan Hong (Chicago), Lingyu Wang (Montreal) and Mourad Debbabi (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a differential privacy, DP, node is provided. The DP node includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a query request; receive a first in...